# curro
## Dalmatian
### Alternative forms

* cuar, currar, currer

### Etymology

From Latin currere.

### Verb

curro
* to run

## Galician
### Etymology

Attested in local Latin documents since the 10th century. Perhaps from Latin curro (“cart”) or from Latin curriculum. Cognate with Spanish corro.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkuro̝/

### Noun

curro m (plural curros)
* corral, round enclosure for livestock
* enclosure, wall
** 1473, M. Romaní Martínez, M. P. Rodríguez Suárez, editors, Libro tumbo de pergamino. Un códice medieval del monasterio de Oseira, Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo, page 50:et outro marco esta no monte a su a mota da torre, et outro ao poonbar da torre, et outro esta na carreyra a sobre lo curro da torreand another boundary stone is in the hill, by the mottle of the tower, and another at the tower's dovecote, and another at the road over the tower's wall
* corner

#### Derived terms

* acurrar
* acurrullar
* acurrunchar
* Corrubedo
* Currais
* curral
* Curral
* Currás
* Currelo
* Currelos
* Curro
* Curros
* Currospedriños
* curruncho
* Cuspedriños

### References

* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “curro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “curro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “curro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “curro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ "curro" in Galleciae Monumenta Historica.
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “corral”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin currus (“chariot”), from Proto-Italic *korzos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), derived from *ḱers- (“to run”). Cognate with English horse, and Welsh car (“car”). Doublet of carro.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkur.ro/
* Rhymes: -urro
* Hyphenation: cùr‧ro

### Noun

curro m (plural curri)
* (archaic, literal and figurative) carriage, chariot
    Synonyms: carro, cocchio
** 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XVII”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 58–63; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:Poi, procedendo di mio sguardo il curro, vidine un’altra come sangue rossa, mostrando un’oca bianca più che burro.Proceeding then the current of my sight, another of them saw I, red as blood, display a goose more white than butter is.
* a cylinder or roller used to move heavy objects

#### Related terms

* correre

### Further reading

* curro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *korzō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥s-é-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”).
Cognate with currus, carrus (via Gaulish), English horse.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkur.roː/, [ˈkʊrːoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkur.ro/, [ˈkurːo]

### Verb

currō (present infinitive currere, perfect active cucurrī, supine cursum); third conjugation
* (intransitive) to run
** 20 BCE – 14 BCE, Horace, Epistles 1.11.27:Caelum, nōn animum mūtant, quī trāns mare currunt.They change the sky, not their souls, those who run across the sea.
* (intransitive) to hurry, hasten, speed
    Synonyms: ruō, accurrō, trepidō, festīnō, prōvolō, prōripiō, properō, corripiō, affluō, mātūrō, prōsiliō
    Antonyms: retardō, moror, cūnctor, dubitō, prōtrahō, trahō, differō
* (intransitive) to move, travel, proceed
* (transitive, of a race, journey, with accusative) to run
* (transitive, with accusative) to travel through, traverse, run

#### Derived terms

* abscurrō
* accurrō
* antecurrō
* circumcurrō
* concurrō
* curriculum
* cursus
* dēcurrō
* discurrō
* excurrō
* incurrō
* intercurrō
* occurrō
* percurrō
* praecurrō
* prōcurrō
* recurrō
* succurrō
* trānscurrō

#### Descendants

* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: curri, cúrrere, cúrriri
* Balkano-Romance:
** Aromanian: cur, curari
** Romanian: cure, curge, curgere
* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Corsican: corra, corre
** Dalmatian: curro, cuar
** Italian: correre
*** ⇒ Italian: corriere (see there for further descendants)
** Sicilian: cùrriri
** Venetan: córar, córer, córare
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: cori
** Ladin: corer
** Romansch: currer, cuorer, correr, corar
* Gallo-Italic:
** Emilian: córrer
** Ligurian: corî
** Lombard: córrer, corr
** Piedmontese: core
** Romagnol: còrar
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: córrer
** Franco-Provençal: corre, corir
** Occitan: córrer, córrir
** Old French: corre, corir, coure, courre
*** Angevin: courre
*** Gallo: courre
*** Middle French: courre
**** French: courre (verb), courir (noun)
*** Norman: couôrre (Jersey), couori (France)
*** Walloon: kori
*** ⇒ Old French: coreor
**** → Middle English: courour
***** English: courier
**** French: coureur
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: correr
** Old Leonese: correre
*** Asturian: correr
*** Mirandese: correr
*** Leonese: correre
** Old Galician-Portuguese: correr
*** Fala: correl
*** Galician: correr
*** Portuguese: correr (see there for further descendants)
** Spanish: correr

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “currō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 157-8

### Further reading

* “curro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* curro in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* curro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to run a foot-race: stadium currere (Off. 3. 10. 42) (ambiguous) to run its course in the sky: cursum conficere in caelo (ambiguous) to finish one's career: vitae cursum or curriculum conficere (ambiguous) to set one's course for a place: cursum dirigere aliquo (ambiguous) to hold on one's course: cursum tenere (opp. commutare and deferri) (ambiguous) to finish one's voyage: cursum conficere (Att. 5. 12. 1)

## Portuguese
### Verb

curro
* first-person singular present indicative of currar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkuro/ [ˈku.ro]
* Rhymes: -uro
* Syllabification: cu‧rro

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from currar.

#### Noun

curro m (plural curros)
* (colloquial, Spain) job, work
    Synonym: trabajo
    Voy al curro. ― I’m going to work.
* (Cuba, Mexico) Andalusian immigrant living in America
* (colloquial, Argentina, Uruguay) scammy or dishonest job; a fake activity or service to earn money from the clients or taxes with little or no effort
    Synonym: robo

### Etymology 2

Perhaps from Curro, nickname of Francisco.

#### Noun

curro m (plural curros)
* (colloquial, regional, Spain) duck, drake
    Synonym: pato

#### Adjective

curro (feminine curra, masculine plural curros, feminine plural curras)
* (colloquial, Spain) handsome, good looking
    Synonym: majo

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

curro
* first-person singular present indicative of currar

### Further reading

* “curro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

### References

* ↑ “curro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10